SuperSite Blog Daily Update: September 24, 2010

While I work on today's WinInfo Short Takes, here are a few tidbits to chew on. (Editor alert: Avoided opportunity to write "on which to chew.")

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg just passed Apple CEO Steve Jobs on the Forbes 400. While Jobs is a huckster, he at least makes something. I find this vaguely unsettling. I don't begrudge Apple its success. (Sorry, haters.) But Facebook? Yeah. More than a bit.

Something stinks about this supposed HP Slate video. Actually, many things about it stink. Off the top of my head, I'd point out that Windows 7 does not require a button to enable the virtual keyboard, for starters. But it wouldn't surprise me to discover that HP messes this up. Frankly, shoehorning a full-featured PC OS into a thin and light device just doesn't make sense anyway.

BTW, now Microsoft is saying that Internet Explorer 9 won't require SP1 on Windows 7. And I'd point out that nowhere in Microsoft's statements about IE 9 and SP1 does the company suggest these two things are somehow shipping simultaneously.

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That HP Slate video, if real, is a big let down. Maybe it was just the screen protector, but he was having lots of problems scrolling and things were too small to "click" on with a finger.
While the iPad may be just a big iPod Touch, at least the touch experience is great.

Nokia's software platforms aren't going anywhere but down. They keep shoveling stuff lately that nobody wants. It maybe big now, but that Android Crazy Train will eventually pass them up. If Nokia wants to save it's business, would being just an OEM for awhile be such a bad thing? It saved Sega from extinction & being multi-platform allows them to play in multiple markets.
As far as Verizon's iPhone, I'll believe when I see it.
I'll keep cheering on Netflix especially if they can make Blockbuster file for Chapter 7 liquidation!

Mozilla didn't have a lot to do with the phone concept. In their own words "Seabird is not a Mozilla or Mozilla Labs project but part of the Mozilla Labs Concept Series." My understanding is that it's actually a contest they cooked up which has something to do with 3D rendering in browsers -- I think.
But to the point, Mozilla hasn't even realized they're being passed up on the desktop. Phones clearly aren't in their sites. By the time they figure this out will they even exist?

Just because Apple is making a CDMA iPhone does not mean it is coming to the USA..
there are lots of CDMA carriers in the world..
One that comes to mind: China Telecom(fast growing too...they added 20mil users in the 1st half of 2010)
S.Korea and Japan are also big CDMA countries..

One other thing...that HP Tablet doesn't interest me..
has anyone seen the Videos on Youtube of the EXOPC slate?
that thing is awesome... its available for preorder now...
check out this video of the interace:: http://youtu.be/QKjTJ31q1UY